Hidden Shame

I'm sorry to say that you don't know meI'm sad in ways you never understoodEach time i try to tell the ugly truthYou always let it pass you byYou said i 'd never tell you a lieJust because i couldDid you really think i was a bad man?You always said that that should be my middle nameBut you don't know the half of itYou don't know how that name fitsYou don't know my hidden shame

Hidden shame, shame, shameThat i can't get freeFrom the blame and the tortureAnd the miseryMust it be my secret for eternity?Till you know my hidden shame you really don't know me

Well, there's a different kind of prisonAnd it don't even have to look much like a cellIt's already on your mindBoy, we can see it in your eyesSo, here's the bars and walls as well

Well, you know i'm never coming home, babeYou said you'd stand by me until i cleared my nameSure it's easy to be strongWhen you know the charge is wrongBut the days and weeks get longWhen you've got a hidden shame

I had a friend when i was just a boyWe were like brothers, we would run and hideAnd we went walking on a high hillsideAnd i really don't how it happenedHe turned to me and had this strange look in his eyeAnd not a single word was spokenI must have pushed him, but i don't remember whyAnd all at once, he lay there brokenAnd i walked down without him and i didn't even sigh

They say you always hurt the one you loveAnd i'm not saying if i did or if i didn'tBut like my shame, that kind of love is always hiddenThey locked me up here for the ideas in my headThey never got me for the thing i really did